United States
Food for the holidays: SNAP develops special produce program for December and the New Year
In North and West Hawaii, over 3,000 new households have increased their access to food by enrolling in the Supplemental Nutrition and Benefits program (SNAP) — up to 8,000 homes from 5,000 at the beginning of the 2018....
New Program Combats Food Deserts With Discounted Rides To Southeast Grocery Stores
In Washington, DC, a new program aims to help residents in living in food deserts by providing discounted rides to grocery stores....
Northwest Arkansas Hunger Relief, Inc. Provides Aid to Other Agencies Battling Hunger
Northwest Arkansas Hunger Relief, Inc. is hyper focused on making a difference with the 25 agencies it supports....
One in six children in America live in fear of hunger
One in 10 adults (nearly 15 million people) and one in six children in the U.S. have gone to bed hungry at some point in the past 3 years, according to a report from anti-hunger nonprofit Hunger Free America released Wednesday....
Change in law means thousands more SF residents will receive food stamps
A change in state law will soon give thousands of San Francisco’s low-income elderly and disabled residents receiving Supplemental Security Income, who were previously not eligible for food stamps, access to the program....
‘There are people that are literally starving’; College students in Queens facing greater risk of food insecurity
More college students in Queens worry about where their next meal is coming from than they did 10 or 15 years ago, according to a study from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute....
7 College Activists Fighting Food and Housing Insecurity on Campus
Recent research has shown a third of all college students have experienced food and housing insecurity. Teen Vogue interviews 7 activists who are helping their fellow students....
It’s Time to Stop Accepting that Food Insecurity is A Normal Part of College
Surviving on ramen noodles isn't a rite of passage....
How one woman is making a difference in the Detroit area
Eden Gives partnered up with a local Trader Joe's and instead of throwing food away that is about to expire, store managers built a process into their store functions that allows them to donate safely to nonprofits like Eden Gives. Buffington picks up from Trader Joe's and feeds about 400 families....
Bay Area developing ambitious new tools to reduce hunger
The battle against hunger is no longer confined to traditional realms like food banks and religious organizations. In the Bay Area, more activists and local governments are trying to find new and more ambitious solutions to the quiet epidemic plaguing one of the country’s richest regions....
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